India, Nov. 2 -- Shah Rukh Khan may be known as a film star today, but there was a time in the late 1980s when he was a sensation on television. It's only in the early 90s that he transitioned to films, kicking off the career he's known for today. In an interview with SCREEN, Renuka Shahane recollected how Shah Rukh was content being a TV star even as his mother (Lateef Fatima) wanted her son to be a movie star.

Renuka and Shah Rukh starred together in the 1989 TV show Circus, in which he played Shekharan Rai and she played Maria. Recollecting how he was already a TV star due to Fauji (1988), Renuka said, "I think the kind of craze I have seen for him after Fauji was while we were shooting for Circus. We were surprised. He didn't even wa...